@mpjgregoire I'm not going to stick my neck out for this budget, but it's worth noting that Don Drummond is still the "small-c" conservative type you'd expect to write a NaPo OpEd, being a fellow of the C.D. Howe institute.
With criteria like "Spending restraint should do the heavy lifting", it's hard to read the 10-point criteria as being some kind of "middle-of-the-road" consensus.
I'm personally more inclined to agree with the analysis by Broadbent's PressProgress
@jszym If your approach to economics were from a #FraserInstitute perspective, you'd see that the #CDHoweInstituteis a centrist organisation. And I'd bet Mr. Drummond has voted Liberal most of his life — it was Premier McGuinty who, gave him a role advising the Ontario government, not the Tories.
@mpjgregoire It's all a matter of perspective, and no one entity is always consistent in their view point, but the C.D. Howe institute has certainly been described as conservative[0], if not sometimes right-wing[1] depending on the source.
The Fraser institute itself has been described as a right-wing[0] or libertarian[2] think tank. It also has a streak of climate-denialism[3].
@mpjgregoire There is an alternative to lower spending, and that is raising taxes as you mentioned. One of the ten points in the scheme rebuffs "populist" taxation, which seems to make their stance pretty clear: the reasonable way to raise funds to is shrink government and lower taxes. I'm not making a value judgement, just stating that it sounds pretty conservative.
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